Another item to add to my regret list: Never experiencing New York city. I did go there when I was eight-years-old (saw a Broadway play Jelly’s Last Jam) but I never experienced it as an adult or even as a teenager. What I remember about NYC was the cold windiness, unbelievable traffic and huge multi-level book stores.
NYC will always have a special place in my heart because it’s the home of the ancient Wechsler Bellevue intelligence scale (which went on to spawn both the WAIS and the WISC series). For David Wechsler, NYC was America and indeed only New Yorkers were included in the test norms of his original scale (though demographically weighted to reflected the country as a whole). You can still see that New York sense of humor in the cartoons the test asks you to arrange and the general knowledge and social judgments it elicits. When I think of American intelligence, I think of New York and there’s no better place to take the WAIS.
But recently New York’s epitaph was written in a brilliant essay called “NYC is dead forever” by hedge-fund manager James Altucher. So powerful was this essay that if NYC was not already dead, this essay killed it. Here, Glenn Beck reads its haunting words :
However Jerry Seinfeld was having none of it, and blasted Atucher for his doom and gloom.
I dunno, I’m not convinced working from home is the new normal. Zoom and Slack are horrible. Most people prefer the company of their coworkers.
Get a mayor/DA who isn’t afraid to actually enforce the law and things should start coming back.
Youre always talking about law and order as if youre some authority on maintaining it. Do you understand in your racially polarized mind that it takes more than just some effective policing or administrative work to actually get rid of crime?
You live in a bubble where you point fingers at blacks and latinos for crime for social indecency etc but as a third party here (someone who is neither a white nor a disadvantaged person of color) I think you start to realize that maybe the problem for centuries were whites! I mean was violence like this common back in the mother countries of these people and if so was it as prevalent and as damaging as to society as it is today?
I dont like to bring up colonialism but essentially that is what your forefathers participated in and did not hold back in asserting their military force in destroying these nations (Africa and the impoverished areas of America are in a total wreck).
I know Mug will be pissed off about this but find me five countries you think were impacted by colonialism, are non-majority white, and still thriving. I can only mention the East Asian bloc of S Korea Japan and China and then add possibly India in too but some may say they have a long way to go to thrive….Singapore and Malaysia count but too small to really have an impact and werent necessarily impacted by colonial aspirations though I dunno too much about their history.
“disadvantaged person of color”
Some people would say people of color in majority white countries are advantaged more than whites.
Yes, and those people are stupid.
Who knows they might be there’s no real way of authenticating who is more advantaged since I think that requires some subjective speculation to get to the right answer.
In my observations people of color are advantaged in some ways and disadvantaged in others. And it’s almost always situational anyways meaning it is important to look at who the person being affected is.
No they’re not. As a brown person you’re probably the 3rd most privilaged group in america behind jews and blacks Melo. Have a bit of self awareness please.
Name some examples of how minorities are more advantages?
still thriving?
india was never thriving.
s korea and chiner were colonies of japan. only a few chinese costal cities were colonized by europeans.
afghanistan was never colonized.
turkey was never colonized.
the peripheral states of the russian empire cum soviet union were heavily colonized by russians and they are mostly poorer than russia today as they were prior to colonization. but what are central asians? turkmens and cossacks seem like a mixture of european and chink.
egypt was never colonized but it was part of the british empire for a short time.
chileans think of their chillens as white.
I know what it means to be a minority. Every time I wait at the international arrivals lobby at JFK, I’m reminded that white people are a mere one-ninth of the world’s population, and declining. We’re the ones being colonized now.
and blacks are only 1/6th. Whites are the only race that is the majority in several continents. How are you being colonized?
India?
You can’t “possibly add” India to that list of thriving countries. The country shouldn’t even come up. It’s a genuinely dismal hellhole that shouldn’t me mentioned along the likes of Korea, Japan, etc
Hell, it can’t even compare to Malaysia.
Akatsuki, what would your comments on India say about your opinions on Indians? In other words, what are your thoughts on not just India as a country but specifically Indians and Indian-Americans?
I come from the subcontinent, I’m sure I know more about than you do. India is set to be a superpower in a much quicker time-frame than China is though the latter might eclipse the other by a marginal difference. However I think certain things will let India dominate over China and America especially in certain sectors of the economy.
Never doubt the prowess of the Brahmin my friend. Never.
india is a shithole country because MIXED.
UNMIXED INDIAN ARYANS ARE LIKE HONDURAN WHITES…
THEY DON’T EXIST.
You mean, whites are the majority in North America, Europe, and Australia/NZ but they’re fast losing all three, partly because they’re not having enough babies to replace themselves and partly because capitalists love importing cheap labor.
“Open borders is a Koch-brothers idea.” -Bernie Sanders — Yeah, it’s so unfair that the Koch brothers have to pay their servants $100 a day when their colleagues in Guatemala pay theirs $100 a month. We must open our borders to close this terrible wage gap!
I mean I’m of South Asian descent too and I’ve been back their a couple times when I was younger so yeah
India as a whole is not a pleasant place. It’s filthy, backwards, doesn’t treat women properly, corrupt, has an extremely uneducated populace and so on. The average citizen is also not quite intelligent and the country as a whole has an average IQ anywhere between 80-84. In order for a country to advance forward past everything, they need to have a competent citizenry and this is something India/Pakistan/Bangladesh lacks. South Korea, Singapore and Malaysia were also decrepit hellholes at one point but they had intelligent populations so they overchame their issues and eventually rose from their statuses as the basketcases of Asia to genuinely livable countries with booming tourism and foreign investment. You can cherrypick and give me some names to the ritzy upper-class neighbourhoods in Mumbai or something like Navi Mumbai but it won’t change the fact as a whole the place is just….bad.
Of course you’ve got extremely eugenic and self-selected groups like the Brahmins, some Bengali groups, and so on but AS A WHOLE, the current state of their affairs is hardly encouraging.
Honestly, the claim that India will beat China into being a first world country is actually quite baffling really. I’m not exactly a big fan of the Chinese but come on now lol
And I think you also asked for my opinion on Indian-Americans, right? While I’m not American (I’m actually Canadian), things look better here. Of course, that is the result of a highly stringent immigration process that only picks the best out of the best. It’s not reflective of the general population in South Asia. Here in Canada, things are slightly different? We have a lot of Punjabi Sikhs living in places like Surrey and Brampton but I don’t know much about the income numbers because it’s really hard to find data on that. Good news is that South Asian Canadians tend to value the importance of schooling and higher education so you’ll see many choosing to go into subjects like STEM, Business/Finance and whatnot. I’m at that age too and I’m going to university for one of those fields.
but they aren’t the majority in north america. qua continent north america includes mexico, central america, and the caribbean. add it all up and whites are about 41% of north america.
and if indians had to live in their own part of canada like eskimos do and like indians do in asia that’s totally different from the current situation where indians and chinks live everywhere in canada. so called “visible minorities are 2.5% of nunavat for fucks sake.
[redacted by pp, sept 2, 2020]
point taken. still, whites are the only “race” that are the majority of more than one continent (europe & australia).
2 words melo:
Affirmative Action
Google it, you might learn something.
You’re joking right? Or are you that brainwashed?
affirmative action based on CLASS would overwhelmingly benefit whites and asians.
thus the dems are against it because they’re racists. they’re the race pimp/hustler party of rich jews. how is this even controversial to non-autists?
“but [whites] aren’t the majority in north america. qua continent north america includes mexico, central america, and the caribbean”
When Mexicans say “norteamericanos”, they don’t mean themselves. Whites are presently a majority north of the Rio Grande, but they won’t be for much longer.
Unless there’s a major trend-breaker like another civil war, in which case the USA quickly reverts to 1900 demographics as everyone except whites, blacks, and Native Americans catches the next flight home.
I have to disagree a priori with essay simply because so many people live in NYC, and in such high concentration. Wherever there are many people in a small space, the economy gravitates to it.
I spent a weekend in NYC 19 years ago today, arriving on August 31, 2001. The first thing I saw getting off the bus was a Mexican man lying alone, on his back, not moving, with his head in a puddle of fresh blood. I just walked by, said nothing to anyone, and never found out what happened to him.
My impression of the place was (a) crowded — squeezing into a seat at an eatery made Economy Class seem spacious, (b) stinky — the streets reeked of rotting garbage. I couldn’t see any tall buildings because smaller buildings form solid walls that block the view. Thought of checking out the WTC observation deck but figured, nah, it’ll be there the next time I’m in NYC.
Pumpkin, if on the patma you got 6/10 the first time around, but then the second time around you get 7/10, and the third time you get 9/10, is there a high likelihood that if one of the questions corresponded to a 110, you’d get that right? 7/10 corresponds to 116 while 6/10 corresponds to 105, so with all the factors, what’s the likelihood of getting the midpoint?
pumpkin, would most people in this situation get the 110 question right?
I see that you usually post a lot of comments here asking PP questions. Why not just email him the questions you have instead?
i prefer questions be asked here because than others can answer too, but everything in moderation. rahul should limit himself to one question a day to avoid annoying people.
I’m gonna do that from now on, one question a day.
I can’t believe you listen to Glenn Beck. That guy is a weirdo.
I don’t listen to him regularly but the subject matter interested me
pumpkin, would practicing digit span transfer over to letters, if its done in a standardized way? what about words?
pumpkin, where do you stand on the political spectrum?
i’m on the left
Puppy the other day you said you were a lolberitarian -wrong on economics and social issues.
i’ve never said i was libertarian in my life. you keep breaking from reality.
Here is my Political Compass result: https://i.imgur.com/fUzJoZR.png
Mind you, I don’t take that test very seriously, mainly because so many of the questions on it are vague and/or loaded, particularly gravitating you towards the bottom-left quadrant if you approve of miasmatic descriptions of basic human rights. I prefer to give my results on the poly-dimensional compass from PolitiScales, although their website seems to be down now:

I look authright
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I don’t think you can be into hbd and left-wing by modern standards. Left-wing today means you can’t emotionally cope with explanations for social problems and intergroup differences beyond it being the white man’s fault. You’re too honest to be a bonafide leftist, PP – even if you’re secular and big on social programs. You have moderate sensibilities, which means you can give the likes of Tucker Carlson props and laugh at illiberal, off-color jokes without getting triggered.
It is the white man’s fault, wdym?
I mean, HBD is a pile of BS anyway.
Richard freaking Dawkins is basically right-wing by modern standards. You have to be a dunce to think the biggest problem facing humankind is white men (which is arguably the keystone of modern leftism).
How do people unironically think that’s what leftism is?
That’s what it is among neurotypicals my age.
Just checked out my old ACT scores out of curiosity. I had a 28 in math, a 27 in science, a 26 in reading, and a 25 in English. I opted not to do the writing.
I think i misstated on this blog before that I got a 24 on the ACT but the above are my actual scores from October 2013!
I only took this test once and I scored a composite 27. Not bad for not really studying or trying since I only submitted my SATs though in hindsight I should probably have submitted these as well.
This planet zoo game is super complicated and hard to learn. The videos explaining basic things like creating a ride are 20 mins long. Ain’t nobody got no time fo dat shit.
if skin color, gender, sexual orientation, sexual identity, etc. are irrelevant to productivity then how can (such) diversity be a strength?
answer: it can’t be. SELF-CONTRADICTION!
real diversity, diversity of opinion and ideology is not a strength either unless the interaction of these in a maximally open way results in an agreed upon AUFHEBUNG or in the realization of truly irreconcilable differences.
Hey Pumpkin, on this source, I found that for every 8 VIQ points gained, 4 PIQ points are gained (to get to the average)- would the same logic apply for the individual subtests?
https://www.semanticscholar.org/paper/Discriminant-Validity-of-the-WISC-IV-Interpretive-Styck-Watkins/20554eaeb2f19eedffdc5c4165d8707f5d595ddb/figure/1
here the average VIQ is 83, while PIQ is 91. For hispanics in general its 91 and 95 respectively, somewhere around there. So, on the similarities subtest, adding 8 points (91-83=8), and adding 4 points to PCn (95-91), would give a pretty decent estimate of the underestimation for the average hispanic right?
pill talks about “economic justice” because jew. he sees every issue as a matter of law.
marx’s analysis of capitalism applies to many situations contemporary and historical, but not all. it applies to the cachorreo system. it doesn’t apply to bullshit jobs.
the problem is a shitty system in which everyone is trapped. exploitation, the expropriation of surplus value, isn’t the reason why poor people are poor in the developed world. not anymore.
marx’s analysis was too jewish and TOO CAPITALIST.
“justice” implies that the only reason why one person is poor is because another person stole his value added. very jewish.
I don’t think I’ve used the term ‘economic justice’ my whole life.
you just did a few days ago.
marx didn’t anticipate the late obscene hypertophy of the lumpenproletariat and the bullshitification of the proletariat.
sorry,
the anatomical use of “hypetrophy” means i should’ve used “hyperplasia”.
the point is the reason why working at Starbucks sucks isn’t because Starbuck’s employees are being exploited. i mean they are being exploited…but even if they weren’t their job is the problem…the problem is that there aren’t more non-pointless stupid jobs…or more people capable of doing non-pointless work…due to lack of training and values…NOT due to innate incapability.
dumb people are 100% capable of laying bricks or whatever.
i agree that in america race and class are NOT separate…and i don’t mean that in the purely correlative sense…i mean, as rr might say, they aren’t even conceptually separable…because class is more than money…it’s more than you and your parents…it’s your grandparents and great grandparents and etc.
BUT what happens now where rich black kids get in over poor white kids is evil.
My maternal grandmother had 5 kids. Each one received one hundred thousand dollars in 2005. I got 10 thousand in 2014. She owned farms hotels and land. She was born in 1911. She gave birth to y mother when she was 39 the last of 5 kids. My mother is developmentally delayed, my father is schizophrenic. My 10% black ancestry comes from his side. He was the first child of 5. His father is where his black ancestry comes from.
My maternal grandmother was born in Montana. The other 3 were born in Albuquerque.
it’s a jew and american protestant thing to think of higher class people as better…
to think the only justification for class is innate differences…
the king and czar were NOT better than their subjects AND…
there’s another justification for class.
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so there’s this YUGE lagoon surrounded by blind men…
trying to feel the loch ness monster in the lagoon…
when a pundit says, “let’s talk about CLASS (vs RACE)”
THE PROBLEM IS THE CURRENT AMERICAN ACCEPTATION OF
“CLASS”…
IS THE MERE NUB OF A MUCH MORE ELABORATE AND SUBTLE CONCEPT…
LIKE…
ONE’S CLASS MAY BE JUST DIFFERENT FROM OTHER CLASSES…
RATHER THAN…
SUPERIOR OR INFERIOR TO ALL OTHERS.
THIS IS CRUEL, HEARTLESS, AUTISTIC.PSYCHOPATHIC POV…
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2020/sep/01/donald-trump-sarah-sanders-take-one-for-the-team-kim-jong-un-wink-book
Trump is without doubt the most entertaining politician I’ve ever seen.
“The Dow Jones Industrial just closed above 29,000! You are so lucky to have me as your PresidentWinking faceWith Joe Hiden’ it would crashAnguished face”
Hahahaha
i guarantee i would think, “wtf is wrong with this guy? so BORING…all he wants to talk about is BLM, women with plastic surgery, and his stupid company.”
like anyone would want to have dinner with you either. when’s the last time you’ve had dinner with anyone other than your white trash relatives?
Puppy are you from an upper or middle class background? [redacted by pp, sept 2, 2020]
VERY upper class. And it’s completely obvious to other upper class people.
giv gold pl0x
“And it’s completely obvious to other upper class people.”
Upper class people don’t like Oprah and probably not horror movies.
I like those things ironically, like a popular jock who likes Star Treck.
LOL so youre saying youre a jock?
At what income is someone “VERY” upper-class?
Tucker Carlson is smart. I’m undecided about bow ties. I promised myself I would only start wearing them if I started working for McKinsey. Damn!
and as with the british aristocracy, the smallest aristocracy in europe, the upper class is distinguished by its aloofness…they aren’t socialites or social register types…these are strivers.
Here’s to dear old
Boston,
Home of the bean and the
Cod,
Where the Lowells speak
only to Cabots,
And the Cabots speak only
to God.
https://www.ft.com/content/f881fb55-8f06-4508-a812-815a10505077
This is a good read.
I would add that in my personal experience upper class people tend to send their kids to business school where they don’t have to be nerds or smart, but get the right credentials.
I went to b school myself so I’m not totally knocking it.
no. are you a brit? business is hated by the british upper class.
the upper class have only three allowed occupations in britain:
1. do nothing. manage the family estate. art history, etc..
2. law.
3. military.
maybe pill is confusing upper class with middle class, both of which have very different meaning in blighty than they do in america or canada.
Our sons ought to study mathematics and philosophy, geography, natural history and naval architecture, navigation, commerce and agriculture in order to give their children a right to study painting, poetry, music, architecture, statuary, tapestry and porcelain.
the middle class in the US do send day keeds to bidness schrool and MBA.
so the chillens of doctors may study finance.
bidness is by far the most popular major in america.
No in my experience rich preppys send their kids to b school like what happened to trump. Jacob Rees mogg is a good example of someone from the aristocracy or as close as you get to it in modern Britain. He set up a hedge fund.
Yes I should say that private equity has a lot of people coming from blue blood.
The women usually go into charity ot the arts but some also go to b school. They may have intentions of running the family business in a board role or something.
reese-mogg is from the gentry apparently. he does have an interesting accent to my american ears though, a throw-back accent. maybe affected.
business is the most competitive major/course at oxford, or was, even more than medicine and law.
in america it’s the least.
Rees-Mogg read History at Trinity College, Oxford, where he graduated with an upper second-class honours degree in 1991.[26][27] Almost immediately after arriving in 1988, Cherwell nominated him for the title of “Pushy Fresher”
it used to be that younger sons became anglican priests…but that hasn’t been a thing for maybe 150 years.
There are two places I would like to go to.
MIT
University of Cambridge
The royal society would be nice also
this wiki is wrong but it’ll splain lucy.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Social_class_in_the_United_Kingdom#Upper_class
i really doubt there’s ever been even a bart in a shovel hat.
Pumpkin, you know of a study which gives information on bilingual test scores? I found only two- https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5221650/ and
https://eric.ed.gov/?id=EJ1040680
On the second website, I just subtracted the current scores with the scores given on there, and I just added that to the individual subtest. Would that work?
Hi pumpkin, I was wondering about head shape/size and intelligence. I know that head size increases with intelligence, but there also seems to be a particular shape that gives rise to high intelligence. It’s more of a dome-shaped head that I’m referring to, as opposed to the standard kiwi-shape. Any ideas on this? Examples include Dominic Cummings (3sd surely) and Paris Bennett (psycho who killed his sister, 141 IQ). Maybe I’m getting confused due to their baldness, idk tho, the heads just seem a bit wider…
There’s not much data correlating head shape to IQ. My personal opinion is more spherical shaped brains are smarter since this is the most efficient shape (minimizes distance between points) and seems to be what separate modern human brains from archaic variants.